Last week in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, gang violence remained high amid clashes between rival groups and attacks against civilians in Mexico, Honduras, and Haiti. In Mexico, gang clashes prompted heightened levels of violence in the northern states of Sonora and Chihuahua, while gunmen attacked a journalist in Mexico state.…
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Last week in the United States and Canada, demonstration activity significantly decreased in Canada and moderately increased in the United States. Solidarity rallies sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran continued in both the United States and Canada, while demonstrations in support of Ukraine increased in both countries.…
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Last week in the East Asia Pacific region, civilians were killed during a clash between the Myanmar military and a local resistance group near a Buddhist religious site in Myanmar’s Mon state.…
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Last week in Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia, amid the ongoing Russian military invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces targeted over a dozen of regions across Ukraine with missile and drone strikes.…
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Antagonism between Bolsonaro’s administration and the opposition has fueled increased electoral violence, which continues to pose a threat ahead of the presidential runoff.
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On 1 October, Ukrainian forces liberated the strategic town of Lyman in the Donetsk region, which Russia had used as a logistics and transport hub for its military operations in northern Donbas (The Guardian, 2 October 2022).…
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Weekly reports on the latest conflict developments in Mozambique and Ethiopia are made available by the Cabo Ligado and Ethiopia Peace Observatory projects, respectively.
Last week in Africa, countrywide demonstrations in Burkina Faso were held against the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and French involvement, and in support of the new military regime; election-related violence occurred across Nigeria; several people were reportedly killed in three bombing attacks in Somalia; and violence surged in Sud-Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. …
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Last week in South Asia and Afghanistan, a suicide bomber targeted the Ministry of Interior in Afghanistan while women continued to stage demonstrations after another suicide attack killed Hazara students the week prior.…
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Last week in South America, in Peru, voters headed to the polls for regional and municipal elections, with conservative Rafael López Aliaga winning Lima’s mayoral elections. Likewise, political violence increased in Brazil as voters participated in the first round of presidential elections.…
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